Neighbourhoods in Fenland
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
11 neighbourhoods · 56 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Wisbech North | £691 | +4.1% | 55 | 34 |
| Wisbech South & Peckover | £752 | +4.1% | 73 | 29 |
| March East | £801 | +4.1% | 50 | 68 |
| March North | £829 | +4.1% | 59 | 31 |
| Leverington, Gorefield & Tydd St Giles | £832 | +4.1% | 61 | 81 |
| March West | £864 | +4.1% | 37 | 64 |
| Coates, Benwick & Pondersbridge | £866 | +4.1% | 56 | 83 |
| Wisbech St Mary, Waldersea & Christchurch | £874 | +4.1% | 37 | 62 |
| Chatteris | £881 | +4.1% | 35 | 70 |
| Whittlesey | £883 | +4.1% | 53 | 49 |
| Doddington, Wimblington & Manea | £938 | +4.1% | 35 | 71 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Fenland
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Fenland. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Fenland median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Fenland.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Fenland
Crime in Fenland runs at 28% below the national average. Below median (#205 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 72.6, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Fenland
100% of schools serving Fenland are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Fenland
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Fenland
Fenland has 0.37 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Fenland
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Fenland?
- The median monthly rent across Fenland is £830, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Fenland?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Fenland by estimated median rent is Wisbech North at approximately £691/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Fenland?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Fenland is Wisbech South & Peckover at 73/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Fenland a safe area?
- Fenland has an average safety score of 54/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Fenland?
- The most common council tax band in Fenland is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £310. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Fenland.
- What is the average salary in Fenland?
- The median annual resident salary in Fenland is £30,125, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Fenland, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Fenland?
- The average property price in Fenland is approximately £227,920 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Fenland?
- Gross rental yield in Fenland is approximately 4.2% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Fenland?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.8 years in Fenland. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Fenland?
- 100% of premises in Fenland are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Fenland?
- 3.9% of 16-64 residents in Fenland are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Fenland?
- Fenland contains 11 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 56 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Fenland
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Fenland 003C
- Fenland 011F
- Fenland 002B
- Fenland 003B
- Fenland 003I
- Fenland 007A
- Fenland 002D
- Fenland 009C
- Fenland 002A
- Fenland 011E
- Fenland 002E
- Fenland 007D
- Fenland 005C
- Fenland 010B
- Fenland 005B
- Fenland 002C
- Fenland 010C
- Fenland 006G
- Fenland 003E
- Fenland 003F
- Fenland 007C
- Fenland 011A
- Fenland 003H
- Fenland 004B
- Fenland 011C
- Fenland 009B
- Fenland 008C
- Fenland 007B
- Fenland 004F
- Fenland 006D
- Fenland 010A
- Fenland 011G
- Fenland 011D
- Fenland 005D
- Fenland 006H
- Fenland 009D
- Fenland 001A
- Fenland 004C
- Fenland 003A
- Fenland 001C
- Fenland 004D
- Fenland 005A
- Fenland 006B
- Fenland 008D
- Fenland 001B
- Fenland 006C
- Fenland 008A
- Fenland 004E
- Fenland 006E
- Fenland 004A
- Fenland 001D
- Fenland 006A
- Fenland 008B
- Fenland 009A
- Fenland 006F
- Fenland 003G